XII.  When the news of Grotius’s recall was known at Paris, it was publicly said that he was going to Sweden to complain of his collegue.  Sarrau writes thus to Salmasius, March 15, 1645[424].  “Grotius is preparing to set out for Sweden after Easter, to complain of the injury done to him by appointing for his successor a young man who was his rival.  He must however obey; and return into a private station:  but this Colossus, though thrown down, will be always great; this statue will still be very high without its base.”  Whilst Grotius waited for Baron Oxenstiern’s answer, he wrote to Spiringius, the Swedish Agent in Holland, asking him, in case he should not receive a favourable letter from Osnabrug, to send him a ship of war to some French port, on board of which he might embark for Gottenburg; or, if that could not be done, to obtain a passport to go from Holland to Gottenburg; but on condition that no mention should be made of what passed in his youth; otherwise, he declared, he would take another rout.  It is probable he obtained such a passport as he desired; for embarking at Dieppe[425], he went to Holland, where he was extremely well received.  The Burgomasters of Amsterdam paid him all honour, and he was entertained at the public expence.  He had also reason to be satisfied with the town of Rotterdam:  not but there were at this time some mean souls in Holland, who wanted to make the States of Holland, then assembled, deny him a passage through the Province:  but this shameful step served only to draw upon them the public indignation.  The City of Amsterdam fitted out a vessel to carry him to Hamburg, where he was May 16, 1645, on which day he writes to his brother[426] that the wind had been against them; that he had been eight days by the way; and that Schrasvius, the Dutch Resident at Hamburg, came to visit him, and had a conversation with him full of friendship.  He was resolved to set out next day for Lubeck, and hoped to find at that town, or at least at Wismar, a vessel that might carry him to Calmar, where he believed the High Chancellor to be with the French and Dutch Ambassadors.  In this letter he asked his brother to give him only the title of Counsellor to her Swedish Majesty.  He speaks much of the honourable reception which the Magistrates of Lubeck gave him[427].  “You cannot believe, he writes to his brother, how many friends I have found.”  He was in the end of March at Wismar[428], where Count Wrangel, Admiral of the Swedish fleet, gave him a splendid entertainment, and afterwards sent a man of war with him to Calmar[429].  The High Chancellor was not there, but at Suderacher, four leagues distant, negotiating a peace between Sweden and Denmark.  Grotius wrote to him immediately, and received a speedy answer:  on the 8th of June the High Chancellor sent a Gentleman with his coach to bring him to Suderacher, where he remained a fortnight[430] with the Chancellor and, the other Ambassadors, who treated him with great honours:  returning to Calmar,